Running a USB image on qemu in SUSE Studio

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You can try out the images on qemu before copying them into USB or disc. Even thought you can do that with qemu, I would recommend to use qemu-kvm as it has a better performance. In any case, the disc image has no free space, as it would expand on the USB or disc, but it would not on qemu. So, after making a copy of it, you can add some free space by doing:

dd if=/dev/zero of=image.raw bs=1 count=1 conv=notrunc seek=3G	

And then try the image on qemu or qemu-kvm:

qemu image.raw	

or

qemu-kvm image.raw